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8 Then what did you go out there to see? A man luxuriously dressed? Men who dress in that way you find in the palaces of kings.
9 Then why did you go out there? Was it to see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet!
10 This is the man of whom the Scripture says, " 'Here I send my messenger on before you; He will prepare the road ahead of you.'
11 "I tell you, among men born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has ever appeared. And yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of Heaven are greater than he.
12 But from the time of John the Baptist until now men have been taking the Kingdom of Heaven by storm and impetuously crowding into it.
13 For up to the time of John all the Prophets and the Law itself prophesied about it,